Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

May I offer the following counterpoint?

His album with Ben Folds, Has Been, is a legit must-listen. A genuinely great album, including for his great cover of Common People.

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

His album with Ben Folds, Has Been, is a legit must-listen. A genuinely great album, including for his great cover of Common People.

Truth!

I will make fun of The Shat as much as, if not more, than the next person for the 70s singing. But Common People? A true gem.

 

[MNblockhead]

Two quibbles. One minor, one major.

Filet mignon is often expensive, but it's not great meat. It's meat for people that prefer texture over taste. People with money that like meat don't order it. But given the price, this is a quibble.

Truffle oil is not gourmet. It's a petrochemical. It's something that middlebrow restaurants will use to make you think something is fancy. Truffles, on the other hand? The real ones? The ones that are charged by weight, shaved on your food in front of you? Yeah. That's a flex.

If you only take one thing from this, it's never use or order food with truffle oil.

Not sure if I put texture over taste, but texture is very important to me.

I'm not really a steak person. I'm really picky with beef and generally forgo unless it is in a form I know I like, or because I'm being polite or trying something new.

My favorite is aged New York strip. I have no idea if that is "great meat" but it's what I like. Fillet mignon, t-bone, and most other steaks I just find boring and a chore to eat.

 

[MNblockhead]

I am so happy my company is too cheap for Microsoft products.* Google has many issues -- and they're accumulating -- but Gmail for Work makes a heck of a lot more sense than all the weird hoops Outlook requires jumping through.

* Except for when I need to work with a truly massive dataset that makes Google Sheets choke and have to hunt someone down with an Excel license.

Have you tried Google Appsheet? See if it comes with your company's Google Workspace account. If you are dealing with that much data you are better off using something more robust than a spreadsheet. I prefer QuickBase, but I doubt you can put company data in a free, personal QuickBase account and, if your company is too cheap for MS products, they are likely too cheap for QuickBase. But if AppSheet is available, and you don't mind a little bit of a learning curve, it will eventually make your life easier than trying to use Excel for large data sets.

Also, depending on what you are needing to do, check out Knime (Knime.com). It is open source and free. Its my swiss tool box for normalizing, transforming, combining, and generating reports from large datasets, especially if dumps from multiple sources.

 

[MNblockhead]

Some of y'all studied business and economics at the College of YouTube, and it shows.

Hey, if it is good enough to learn a new song on the guitar or how to fix my garage door, surely I can trust it to help me master macroeconomics.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Have you tried Google Appsheet? See if it comes with your company's Google Workspace account. If you are dealing with that much data you are better off using something more robust than a spreadsheet. I prefer QuickBase, but I doubt you can put company data in a free, personal QuickBase account and, if your company is too cheap for MS products, they are likely too cheap for QuickBase. But if AppSheet is available, and you don't mind a little bit of a learning curve, it will eventually make your life easier than trying to use Excel for large data sets.

Also, depending on what you are needing to do, check out Knime (Knime.com). It is open source and free. Its my swiss tool box for normalizing, transforming, combining, and generating reports from large datasets, especially if dumps from multiple sources.

I'll check. It's only once every year or two that I get a dataset that is hundreds of columns wide and thousands of rows long, but when I do, it's an important project.

EDIT: Nope. It must have cost a few extra bucks a month.

 

[MNblockhead]

Damn, you get emails long enough you need a search function?

I've been fighting e-mail for years. Trying to get my team into better business process habits and using better systems for requests, task tracking, and updates. I heavily use Power Automate to turn e-mail into something useful (and back in the day ProcMail, took me years to move from PINE and ProcMail to e-mail systems with a GUI because of lack of good filtering and automations). But its a losing battle.

My current e-mail pet peeve in my new job is that the front desk sends out an e-mail every friday asking people for their schedule for the next week (what days they'll be in the office, telecommuting, on vacation, etc.). Keep in mind that we already have to enter our leave requests in one system and submit our hours in yet another system, and complete a telework agreement in a PDF form and submit that to yet another system. But that's not even what drives me crazy.

What is just mind-boggling to me is the number of people who respond to the front desk's weekly request for your next weeks schedule with reply-all. I've had to create a power-automate flow to delete all e-mail with the subject line "weekly schedule" unless it comes from the front desk e-mail or my boss's e-mail. Otherwise, every friend, my inbox gets flooded with people responding to the front desk with their weekly schedules.

If everything is turning into videogames, business software should allow everyone to remap their keybinds!

Gmail lets you. But I've gotten very particular with short cuts and text expansion and have been using tools like ActiveWord, PhraseExpress, and AutoHotKey for decades. I also use a Kinesis keyboard that lets me program the keyboard to automate a lot of things with a few keystrokes, with multiple layers depending what I'm doing. I'm also left handed. Basically, my computers are unusable to other people. I feel like a stick-shift driver in the United States. Few people are ever going to want to use my computer, because they don't know how to.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Few people are ever going to want to use my computer, because they don't know how to.

#featurenotabug